Dress Up Jebus

“…Urban Outfitters is offering a refrigerator magnet set depicting Jesus on the cross. A variety of clothes for “Jesus Dress Up” include a Satan mask and tights, ballerina, and dogcatcher outfit. The sign above the cross reads, “Hang in there baby!”….A variety of clothes for “Jesus Dress Up” include a Satan mask and tights, ballerina, and dogcatcher outfit….and a Dr. Seuss hat.”
So reads an Action Alert sent to the several million members of the Reverend Donald Wildmon’s American Family Association which urges concerned christians to bombard Urban Outfitters with letters condemning the allegedly blasphemous magnets. But there is no need to even buy them when you can play “Dress up Jesus” online! – “Dress up Jesus by dragging the items to him with your mouse.”, reads the offending website. From the AFA’s suggested letter text : “While you may think it is “cute,” your decision shows a great disrespect toward people of faith everywhere.”
To say that I dislike the AFA would be to put it mildly, but I kinda think that freedom of speach only goes so far. Even I think the magnet is sort of insensitive to those christian folk ou there.